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When I was a kid we had a drawer with sewing utensils. After sewing we never threw away thread that was left, it was always left attached to the needle and pinned into the spool (you know, it may save you some time next time). After many years all these threads created a large ball.

It looked similar.
 
The pic is a close up shot from that right framed work over the little hamlet that I showed in the other thread. But for that pic I removed it and got the idea to shoot some close ups from it. Yes it's produced locally.

Tinypic logo with the message 'THIS IMAGE OR VIDEO HAS BEEN MOVED OR DELETED' in a blue-bordered placeholder box.


The blouse idea is worth thinking about.
 
Anyway, there was another photo contest with the title "deadline", in whatever way you wanted to interpret that. Obviously there were several cemetaries with rows of graves but I entered this:

Overgrown narrow-gauge rail track running through a forest of birch trees and dense green undergrowth, with a weathered concrete building and a small figure in the background.


An old abondoned mine line somewhere in the pyrenees not too far from Andorra and Montcru.
 
Todays loot, gutter stalactites

Close-up photo of clear ice formations with ridged, rippled surfaces and small droplets hanging from icicle tips against a dark background.


The full shot uncropped on 15% size

The EXIF (may be interesting for Dembadon)

File Name IMG_5807.CR2
Camera Model Canon EOS 550D
Firmware Firmware Version 1.0.9
Shooting Date/Time 24-12-2010 15:10:09
Author Andre
Copyright Notice Andre 2010
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/80
Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation 0
ISO Speed 200
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Focal Length 210.0mm
Image Size 5184x3456
Image Quality RAW
Flash Off
FE lock OFF
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode One-Shot AF
AF area select mode Manual selection
File Size 23121KB
...
 
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Andre said:
Todays loot, gutter stalactites

Close-up photo of clustered icicles with rippled, glassy surfaces and small water droplets hanging from their tips, against a dark background.


The full shot uncropped on 15% size

The EXIF (may be interesting for Dembadon)

Nice gear! :approve:

Thanks for showing the EXIF data. I've been taking more pictures in aperture priority mode lately. In fact, I'll probably use Av mode more often than not from now on.
 
I've got some pics I took from my 2009 spring break trip out west.

Here's a sunset in the Arizona desert. Looks like a painted sky.

[PLAIN]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2577/85/13/635517292/n635517292_1608773_6209723.jpg

Here's the Valley of Fire in Nevada.

[PLAIN]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2577/85/13/635517292/n635517292_1608781_1988483.jpg
 
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Looks nice Dimensional.

So today I walked to the city to make piX of a silly sculpture for the photonbcontest "Is this really art". I shot this thing:

Low-angle photo of a bronze sculpture of a large sword with a gold hilt and crossguard stuck into a rough brown boulder against a deep blue sky.


... known as aardappelmannetje (potato man).

But I past along this... gutter

Photo of a long icicle hanging from a gutter beside a blue front door, with a red-brown hedge to the right and a brick house wall behind.


Actually I waited about 20 minutes to get a little bit of sun shining on it like on the pic, and these are some of the results:

Close-up photo of an icicle formed on a metal gutter pipe against a red brick wall, lit by low sun.


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Close-up photo of icicles and melting ice formations on a dark surface, backlit by low sunlight with branches in the foreground.


Close-up photo of icicles hanging from a dark surface, lit warmly from one side so the ice appears translucent with bright highlights and shadowed crevices.
 
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Slightly to the right, and a little bit up:

Flock of small birds in flight against an overcast grey sky, spread diagonally across the frame in loose clusters.


And yes, that was sheer luck - clouds are dense here as well, it was a short moment when they were not as thick.

Edit: I forgot to add it was more luck than just the weather. I knew there will be an eclipse today, but for some reason I was sure it will be not visible in Poland. If not for the Junior's call ("Hey, look up!") I would miss the event completely.
 
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Quoting from another thread:

Andre said:
Got the heck of a deal too, with the 7D this morning.

I have a question about 7D (and to some extent 550D). What is a size (in MB or GB) of a 1 minute HD movie shot with the camera?
 
That's huge indeed. Get a shot of 14 sec doing 76Mb and one of 19 sec being 108Mb. The format is MOV The files are so huge that normal PC software is unable to give a smooth replay. Still searching for the right software for that. Of course you can convert to WMV or anything. Replay from camera to TV directly is no problem.

But have a few 8 or 16 GB cards for a lot of filming. Also notice that the card used in the 7D is compact flash, not SD format
 
Size of the file is not a matter of format, but of the codec used. But it doesn't matter much, I already know what I wanted. Thanks.
 
Andy Resnick said:
Congrats- that was some stiff competition.

Thanks Andy

Anyway I wondered indeed about that "competition" in that challenge.

You can see the voting distribution for instance here (below right of the pic), and I wondered about sock puppet votes (you can't vote for your own entries). So I did some duplication of the voting in the spreadsheet that I uploaded here.

I see that my averages are different form that of the site itself, except for #1. So I wonder where the bug is. But I also see several votes aprroximately outside the two sigma range (highlighted yellow) and even three sigma range (highlighted red). I have shared my concern with the staff of the site, but no reaction so far. Obviously obnoxious vote behavior can be tracked and identified easily this way.
 
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I guess this picture will not qualify for the contest, even if editing was minimal:

Black and white Holstein cow standing on a stone wall edge against a blue sky, with a speech bubble reading: It's All Downhill From Here.
 
Actually my voteless entry in that contest ended up as #6 of 119 here.

Anyway, we happened to have a good vase of roses this week. Nice to practice.

Close-up photo of a red rose in full bloom, with tightly spiralled inner petals and softly blurred brown background, with green leaves visible at the base.


The uncropped image at 15%

From the EXIF:

Type: Canon EOS 7D
Aperture: F/11
Shutter:4 sec
ISO-100
F: 100mm
No flash
 
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Right, Borek, CD actaully but No doubt you all saw it, it's a life size crop of this picture:

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You can have a lot of fun with CD's.

Actually notice the difference in focus between these two :

Close-up of a compact disc surface showing bands of rainbow iridescence radiating from the centre hole, with pink, orange, yellow, green and blue streaks against a grey background.


Close-up of the underside of a compact disc showing bands of rainbow iridescence radiating outward from the central hole, with a blurred shallow depth of field.


Anybody care to explain?
 
CDs! I knew it!

Btw Andre, love the color of that rose, just like like watermelon's color, what's it called?
 
drizzle said:
CDs! I knew it!

Btw Andre, love the color of that rose, just like like watermelon's color, what's it called?

The rose was bought in one of the abundant flowershops here and unfortunately they don't tag the name on it and I don't know the name of that variety.
 
Beautiful, I set it as my desktop's background. :approve:
 
Andre said:
Actually notice the difference in focus between these two :

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Anybody care to explain?

Nice photos, Andre! (The rose, too- really well done!)

I'm guessing one photo was off the top (plastic) surface while the other was of the metallized layer?
 
drizzle said:
Beautiful, I set it as my desktop's background. :approve:

You're welcome. I just uploaded the original to my gallery -link below- If you visit that or follow this link, you can download it in several sizes for better quality and detail.
 
Andy Resnick said:
Nice photos, Andre! (The rose, too- really well done!)

I'm guessing one photo was off the top (plastic) surface while the other was of the metallized layer?

Thanks Andy, not sure, the differnce in focus seemed to be more. I'll try again and notice the distance.